SEOUL – Hit Netflix collection Squid Sport is up for 3 awards on the Critics Alternative Awards, together with finest drama collection and finest actor in a drama collection for Lee Jung-jae.
One of many main ceremonies of the award season in the US, the Critics Alternative Award introduced the nominees on Monday (Dec 6).
That is the primary time a Ok-drama drama has been nominated, though South Korean director Boon Jong-ho’s 2019 film, Parasite, was nominated for seven awards and finally took house finest movie and finest director final January (2020).
Squid Sport will face off in opposition to seven different exhibits for finest drama collection, together with Succession, which leads the contenders with eight nominations, This Is Us, Yellowjackets, Evil, For All Mankind, The Good Struggle and Pose.
Lee is the one non-English-speaking nominee in the very best actor in a drama collection class. He’s up in opposition to Sterling Ok. Brown for This Is Us, Mike Colter for Evil, Brian Cox and Jeremy Sturdy, each for Succession, and Billy Porter for Pose.
The nine-parter, a couple of group of determined folks taking part in lethal childhood video games for an enormous money prize, can also be nominated for finest international language collection.
Fellow nominees embody two French collection, Name My Agent! and Lupin; and Cash Heist, Acapulco and Narcos: Mexico in Spanish.
Mare Of Easttown, a criminal offense drama starring Kate Winslet, and Evil, a supernatural thriller with Katja Herbers, each had 5 nominations every, together with finest actress in a drama collection.
The ceremony will happen in Los Angeles on Jan 9 subsequent yr (2022).